I think he's performed a very valuable service. When you're talking about how we should expand the education mandate of the Privacy Commissioner, I think everybody, whether they're in the workplace or citizens, has to be vigilant or call to account things that they know about, and talk about them. These are problems that we all have to face, and so I think it's very important that a guy like that has exposed a whole set of technology and confirmed it, which otherwise wouldn't be there.
I think you should offer incentives for people—call them whistle-blowers—and some protection, for sure, for good hackers or whatnot, who are doing this kind of thing. We need more than just another educational paper on metadata. We need people who are on the front lines and are telling us what is there. This was major.
If President Obama wants to pardon him, I would not object.